THE GHETTOS

What are Ghettos?

Designated section of town where the Jews were forced to live had been done for centuries- word came from

area in Venice where Jews lived during 1500s First step in Final Solution

Able to get all Jews in one area=easier to deport to concentration camp

Began in 1939 Most in Poland

First ghettos located in Poland’s largest cities

How it Began

Jews were forced to leave home and take belongings to ghetto

Would march down street to designated area Once there would be given a housing ticket

which said where they would live Once all in, would be sealed off and exits

were heavily guarded Forced to wear Star of David on clothing and

white arm-band

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Life in the Ghetto Given rations which were not enough to live

on Estimated- 300 calories/day/person

Very dirty = lots of diseases and death Black market Cramped living space

About 37% of the greater Warsaw population was squeezed into 4.6% of the area of the city

 450,000 people that lived in the Warsaw ghetto Still able to live lives normally

Example: practice religion Forced to work for little to no money

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Most successful uprising Underground resistance fighters had

been smuggling weapons in January 1943 fire on Nazis trying to round

up Jews for transport and Nazis are forced to flee

April 1943- found out all remaining in Warsaw Ghetto are to be sent to Treblinka so go into hiding and fighters prepare

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Seven hundred and fifty fighters armed

with a handful of pistols, 17 rifles, and Molotov cocktails faced more than 2,000 heavily armed and well-trained German troops supported by tanks and flamethrowers

Forced Nazis to flee but came back with more weapons, eventually the Nazis began to burn down all the buildings in Ghetto

Resistance holds out for 27 days until ended on May 16

 300 Germans and 7,000 Jews were killed

End of the Ghettos

Hitler ordered all ghettos to be liquidated in 1942 and all residence to be sent to concentration camps

Rounded up and forced into cattle cars to be sent to a concentration camp or an extermination camp